[R] how to read data from the different worksheets in the same Excel file

Prof Brian Ripley ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
Wed Jan 14 16:10:48 CET 2009


On Wed, 14 Jan 2009, Tony Breyal wrote:

> Hi Xin,
>
> I think you can use the read.xls() function from package
> xlsReadWrite.

Assuming this is Windows ....

> alternatively, i think the odbcConnectExcel() function in package
> RODBC might work too (not sure about excel 2007 files, though there
> might be an updated function for those types of files in the package).

There has been for quite some time.

And this is all in the 'R Data Import/Export' manual ....

>
> Hope that helps a little bit,
> Tony Breyal
>
> On 14 Jan, 11:30, "Xin Shi" <jasonshi... at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Dear All:
>>
>> I am trying to read the data from the different sheet but in the same Excel
>> file. Does R provide this kind of command to do it?
>>
>> Anyone has experience on this?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Xin
>>
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